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• Telstra acknowledges massive privacy breach

  Telstra has potentially breached the privacy of some 220,000 consumer and business customers, mailing out letters incorrectly containing customer names, telephone plans and phone numbers.
  

• ACMA releases telco complaints hearing dates

  The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has released details on the public hearings it will be holding into the state of complaints-handling in the Australian telecommunications sector.

• Do Not Call Register targeted by scammers

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) have jointly issued warnings to consumers following a spike in the number of complaints both regulators have received in the past two months about phone scammers.
  

• Freeview claims quashed as Nine 3D report issued to ACMA

  Recent trials of 3D TV broadcasting by the Nine Network and Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) have indicated more Australians are capable of receiving MPEG-4 based digital TV than previously thought.

• Updated: ACMA rains on Nine's 3D party

  The Nine Network’s failure to deliver a report to industry watchdog, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), on its 3D trials have temporarily barred its ability to broadcast the NRL grand final in the format.

• Coalition announced additional $10.5 million to spend on cyber-safety

  The Coalition has announced it will spend $10.5 million on a National Cyberbullying Taskforce as part of its wider cyber-safety policy.

• ACMA gifts spectrum to Optus for 3G in regional and remote Australia

  Optus has secured the rights to deploy 3G mobile services at 972 sites across regional and remote Australia from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).

• ACMA warns against World Cup spammers

  The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is urging caution following the reporting of a number of spam-fuelled scam attempts linked to the World Cup.

• What are you saying?

  Every week, <i>Computerworld Australia</i> collates all the things our readers have been saying about the news, both in the forums and in comments.
  

• ACMA to talk blacklist security

  The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) will discuss blacklist security with a web filter vendor next week, amid reports the list will be hijacked or stolen.

• ACMA looks deep into Soul

  The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has accepted a court enforceable undertaking from Soul Communications Pty Ltd (Soul) after the telco breached the Telecommunications Act 1997 by failing to provide information to the Integrated Public Number Database (IPND) Manager.

• ACMA launches anti-SMS spam hotline

  The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has soft launched an anti-SMS spam hotline. The hotline allows consumers receiving spam SMS to send the offending message directly to a mobile number run by ACMA, rather than through an online form.

• Five minutes with ACMA’s Tom Burton

  Tom Burton has spent the last few years as online director at The Center for American Progress (CAP), a think tank run by the Obama Administration. The former journalist and ministerial adviser spoke to <i>Computerworld</i> about his new role as the Australian Communication and Media Authority (ACMA) Gov 2.0 champion.

• ACMA alleges Virgin Mobile spamming

  The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)has accepted an enforceable undertaking from Virgin Mobile related to breaches of the Spam Act.

• Government calls for no-call register renewal

  The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has called for renewals for the first listings on the [[xref: http://www.computerworld.com.au/tag/do%20not%20call%20register|Do Not Call register]] which will expire in May.